Immerse your spirit in love, justice and compassion.
Trauma-informed spiritual care and psychotherapy for people in struggle.
Uncover your inner wisdom, confidence and love with:
Spiritually informed psychotherapy
Spiritual care for front-line workers, movement builders and justice seekers
Restorative and Transformative Justice
Incarceration, detention and post-incarceration support
Orev’s approach
Orev’s practice is centred in personal and collective liberation. Orev collaborates with you to find a pathway of change that honours your inner strength, and works for your own life and pace. Whether you are seeking healing from a specific trauma, a set of personal patterns that no longer serve you, or wanting a skilled witness as you move through some stuck places, Orev uses various tools of psychotherapy and spiritual care to centre your wisdom in your own growth and transformation. Orev is also a client, having had their own journey of liberation through coming out, chronic illness, family estrangement, domestic violence and intergenerational trauma, supporting a parent with dementia, supporting a teenager in care, having loved ones recovering from cult involvement and journeying in their own recovery from codependency.
For over a decade, Orev has been working with people struggling with stigma, mental health, addiction, chronic illness and aging issues, as well as people navigating criminal charges, on parole, or incarcerated. Orev has supported the loved ones of incarcerated people, and facilitated Restorative and Transformative justice circles for individuals, families, and community agencies dealing with the criminal injustice and child protection systems.
Orev’s clients struggle with grief, addiction, suicidality, and intergenerational trauma. They have lived with and survived racism, colonialism, classism, ablism, misogyny, and transphobia. These wounds can prevent us from feeling like freedom and wholeness is possible. However, survival requires an amazing set of tools and skills, which add up to wisdom and resilience when framed in the right light, and with a supported brain. You already have the internal tools. Orev is here to help direct the light where it wants to go.
Consensual, Healing Space
Sessions with Orev are co-created spaces, designed to access your deepest wisdom and the tools your body needs to heal and feel whole. Over time, you will build a relationship based on trust, generosity and respect. Orev will ask you to share what you choose of your story, and what’s alive for you in the moment. All the ways you identify will be welcome in the space, including gender, sexuality, culture, ethnicity, bodyways, brainways, spirituality, and ancestry. Flexibility and experimentation will inform how healing is built, and you will be the centre of this work. You are the expert in your care, your medicines, your healing, and your resilience. Whether you want to address a specific issue that is emerging in your life, events from the past, or the ongoing challenges of incarceration and its aftermath - the space you and Orev create together will offer practical strategies for change, and inner resources for long-term stability.
Online or in-person options
Orev is happy to meet with you by phone, online or in person in the so-called Vancouver area to discuss what kind of support best suits your needs. All first consultations are free of charge. Schedule yours today.
Orev’s sessions are covered by many insurance providers. Ongoing sessions are $200 CAD, and free for currently incarcerated people. Orev also offers an ongoing free therapy spot. If the cost of therapy is a challenge for you, don’t hesitate to get in touch. Orev is open to discussing energy/labour exchanges for sessions as well. Reach out for a conversation today for you or your loved one.
Meet Orev
Orev Reena Katz haKohenet, they/them, she/her
Orev practices spiritual care and psychotherapy with people who are striving to meet themselves and their life goals in a new way. Our lives are deeply woven with ancestry, identity, and the pursuit of justice for our beloved communities. Self-actualization benefits the whole being, and the whole social organism. For Orev, supporting personal healing means be-ing with people experiencing isolation, fear and the effects of violence. It means witnessing with non-judgemental presence, and building trust from the ground up. It means trusting that our brains know how to heal us with the support of an attuned witness and facilitator.
For several years, Orev worked with folx who were incarcerated, on parole and formerly involved in the criminal injustice system in Southern Ontario, the traditional territory of the Anishnabek, Haudenosaunee, Huron-Wendat, Mohawk, Odawa and Mississauga of New Credit in Williams, Treaty 57 and 13 Territories. Orev’s journey supporting incarcerated people began as a young person, learning about the experiences of incarceration from relatives who survived concentration camps during World War II, and witnessing the intergenerational trauma that resulted from it. As a teenager, Orev organized around the riots in Kingston’s notorious Prison for Women, working with other youth to address overcrowding, suicidality and racism in Canada’s prisons. After 9/11, Orev worked with abolitionist groups to visit incarcerated women and children in the airport motels used as temporary prisons in T’karonto/Toronto. After a 20 year career as an artist, with a practice which focused on listening and somatic resonance in public space, Orev returned to the work of supporting others directly affected by incarceration through spiritual care. Orev has worked as the Jewish Chaplain in Canada’s federal prison system, where she provided progressive, social justice-based Jewish education, and one-on-one counselling. Orev has also provided arts-based resilience programming, and been the Spiritual Care Provider for two front-line staff teams and at the Prisoner AIDS/HIV Support and Action Network (PASAN) in Tkaronto/Toronto, and as an RJ Facilitator for North Shore Restorative Justice on xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) in so-called North Vancouver. Currently, Orev works with Shift BC, providing team-based, mental health therapy and resources to people of all ages involved with hate groups, and volunteers as a Chaplain with detainees at the Immigration Holding Centre in so-called Surrey.
As a queer Chaplain, Psychotherapist and RJ Facilitator, Orev has been blessed to work with all kinds of fabulous, spiritual people, and to support 2SLGBTQQIA+ people of all sexual and gender expressions in the abundance of our expressions of gender and sexuality. We keep each other safe and thriving in the face of hate directed towards us.
As an active organizer with the movement for Palestine, Orev strives to oppose the violence of Zionism, and create spaces for healing, justice and accountability in their work with clients, families, sacred spaces, organizations, and agencies.
“I don’t know how I did 5 years of solitary confinement. It sounds so hackneyed, but it really comes down to living each moment for that moment, and recognizing that you can make a difference.”
—I, 54. Beaver Creek Institution
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Orev is honoured to live and work as an uninvited guest on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples: xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations in so-called Vancouver, British Columbia. Orev commits to using their lifetime to: unlearn the protocols of colonialism; build relationship with land and the beyond human world; and dismantle white supremacy in all ways, including through being an accomplice in calling out injustice and speaking truth to power from Turtle Island to Palestine.